Garment-stay.



J. F. KITCHEN.

GARMENT STAY.

APPLlCATlON FILED 1uLY2l. 1914.

L m m, 4 Patented Jan. 16,1917.

s ra rss arnivr iri no JOHN F. IKIEIQ'CJEIEN', OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SPIRELLA. COMPANY, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. M5, 1917.

Application filed July 21, 1914. Serial No. 852,247.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN F. KITCHEN, a resident of Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Stays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire garment stays, and particularly to stays for use in corsets and like articles of wearing apparel.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple stay which can be readily manufactured, which is flexible in all directions, in which successive portions of the stay mutually support each other, which is materially reinforced along the middle portion of the stay, in which the bending is not concentrated at a point or points, and which there fore avoids short bends and the liability of crystallization or deterioration of the metal.

he invention comprises the garment stay hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a face view of one form of garment stay embodying the invention and Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof.

The stay shown is formed of wire, and in the embodiment illustrated is formed of a single wire 1, which is bent back and forth across the stay alternately from edge to edge thereof, and in such manner as to form two rows of closed eyes or loops 2 disposed alternately along the opposite edges of the stay and connected by transverse portions or crossings 3. The transverse portions 3 are each bent or curved toward one endof the stay, all thereof being preferably bent toward the same end of the stay in order to form a row or series of open loops or eyes l lying between the edges of the stay and preferably along its middle line. Said crossing portions preferably overlap each other slightly at the inner edges of the edge loops 2, and in such manner that the end of each central open loop 4 overlaps the open end of the next adjacent loop 4:. This provides two continuous rows of longitudinally extending portions of the wire, indicated at 5, located on opposite sides of the middle line of the stay, and which therefore materially reinforce it and mutually brace the successive portions of the stay upon each other, and which are connected by a series of transversely extending portions of the Wire formed by the closed ends of the open loops 4 along the middle portion of the stay.

The open loops 4t along the middle line of the stay are each disposed, longitudinally of the stay, at a point substantially midway between the next adjacent edge loops 2 along the opposite edges of the stay, so that the loops 2 and t together are progressively arranged in diagonal transverse rows inclined first in one-direction and then in the other across the stay.

The stay described is simple, is flexible in all directions, is resilient, strong and durable, and is not liable to take a permanent set on short bends.

lVhat I claim is 1. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth across the stay to form two rows of closed loops or eyes lying along the edges of the stay and bent or deflected along the middle line of the stay to form a row of open loops, said open loops all pointing in the same direction longitudinally of the stay having their sides.substantially parallel to the middle line of the stay, and successive open loops along the middle line of the stay overlapping each other.

2. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth across the stay to form two rows of closed loops or eyes lying along the edges of the stay and a row of open loops lying along the middle line thereof, the closed end of each of the open loops along the middle line of the stay overlapping the open end of the next adjacent loop.

8. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth across the stay to form two rows of closed loops or eyes lying along the edges of the stay and a' row of open loops lying along the middle line thereof having their ends rounded and their sides substantially parallel to the middle line of the stay, each of said open loops being disposed longitudinally of the stay between the neXt adjacent loops along the opposite edges thereof. i. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth across the stay to form two rows of closed loops or eyes lying along the edges of the stay and a row of open loops lying along the middle line thereof having their ends rounded and their sides substantially parallel to the middle line of the stay, said loops being disposed in diagonal rows inclined alternately in opposite directions.

5. A garment stay, comprising Wire bent of parallel overlapping Wire portions exbacl: and forth across the stay to form two tending from end to end of the stay. i

rows of closed eyes or loops alternately dis- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set posed in progressive arrangement and a row my hand.

5 of open loops lying along the middle line of JOHN F. KITCHEN.

the stay and having the sides of said open Witnesses: loops substantially parallel to the middle T. F. CHARLTON, line of the stay, whereby to provide a series WV. S. SMITH.

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